We are each other's magnitude and bond.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.